England, c. 1930s to 1940s
Beswick, glazed earthenware
19 cm high
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Notes
A jug with one foot in the kitchen and the other in modernism. The body is compact and rounded, lifted on three small feet, then finished with an angled rim that gives the whole thing its snap. The pale blue glaze keeps it from feeling severe: soft enough to stay domestic, sharp enough to read as design.
Beswick is better known now for figurines, but the firm made a great deal of ornamental and useful ware alongside them, and this sits in that good middle ground. Useful, sculptural, and a little smarter than it needs to be.
